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STARBUCKS should be banned from railway stations unless it pays its taxes, train drivers’ union Aslef urged Network Rail today.
Starbucks has 1,000 shops in Britain and paid just £4 million in tax despite raking in £387m in sales.
It was revealed that the company’s European business paid a paltry £18.3m in tax last year. Meanwhile it paid its Seattle-based parent company £348m in dividends collected from brand licensing.
Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
On the eve of the 157th Trades Union Congress, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, celebrates victory in his campaign to get dignity for drivers at work
